On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >
> > The machine has 128Meg of RAM, 256Meg of SWAP, and SWAP isn't even being
> > touched...
> >
> >
> > acctng=> insert into radhist select * from radhist_old;
> > FATAL 1: palloc failure: memory exhausted
>
> Try this before starting postmaster:
>
> :
> ulimit -d 65536 2>/dev/null
> ulimit -c 0 2>/dev/null
> limit datasize 64m 2>/dev/null
> limit cordumpsize 0 2>/dev/null
>
> Some proc limit is being exceeded.
Just an FYI...this did fix it. Should we update the FAQ with
this, or was it already there and I couldn't find it? :(
>
> > acctng=> \q
> > > pstat -s
> > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
> > /dev/sd0s1b 256000 0 255872 0% Interleaved
> > > psql
> > Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
> > Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
> >
> > type \? for help on slash commands
> > type \q to quit
> > type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> > You are currently connected to the database: acctng
> >
> > acctng=> select count(start_time) from radhist_old;
> > count
> > ------
> > 295850
> > (1 row)
> >
> > acctng=>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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>
Marc G. Fournier
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